The Tibetans

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Jonathan Raban

"The Inside Passage from Puget Sound to Alaska is winding, turbulent, and deep - an ancient, thousand-mile-long sea route, rich in dangerous whirlpools, eddies, rips, and races."--BOOK JACKET. "When Jonathan Raban set out alone in his own boat to sail from his Seattle home to the Alaskan Panhandle, he wanted to decode the many riddles and meanings of the sea: in Indian art and mythology, in the journals of Vancouver and his officers and midshipmen, in poetry and painting, in the physics of waves and turbulence. His voyage began as an intellectual adventure, but he soon found himself in deeper, more ominously personal waters than he had planned."--BOOK JACKET.

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Jack Larkin

A social history of early America combines with more than four hundred photographs and drawings to look at everyday life, and the many different kinds of dwellings, at the dawn of the new republic, from the American Revolution to the Industrial Revolution.

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Russell A. Olsen

Explores the many sites along the famous American east-west artery, including filling stations, main streets, motor courts, cafes, campgrouds, honkytonks, truck stops, and barbecue joints established to serve motorists. All of the sites and structures included here are shown both during their mid-century heydays and as they appear in the present.

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Suzanne Massie

This remarkable portrait of pre-revolutionary Russia as revealed by an enriching synthesis of its art, literature and history.